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The Knitter's Book of Yarn: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing, Using, and Enjoying Yarn
C Parkes
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Description for The Knitter's Book of Yarn: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing, Using, and Enjoying Yarn
Hardcover. Provides insight into a vast selection of yarns, giving you the inside stories behind some of the most common fibre types, preparations, spins and ply combinations used by large-scale manufacturers and importers, medium-sized companies, boutique dye shops, community spinneries and old-fashioned sheep farms. Num Pages: 256 pages, 60 photographs, 100 illustrations. BIC Classification: WFBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 197 x 28. Weight in Grams: 980.
Not all yarns are alike and it happens far too often that we use the wrong type of yarn for the wrong project - sometimes with disasterous results. In these pages, Clara Parkes provides in-depth insight into a vast selection of yarns, giving you the inside stories behind the most common fibre types, preparations, spins and ply combinations used by large-scale manufacturers and importers, medium-sized companies, boutique dye shops, community spinneries and old-fashioned sheep farms. And, because we learn best by doing, Parkes went to some of the most creative and inquisitive design minds of the knitting world to provide ... Read more
Not all yarns are alike and it happens far too often that we use the wrong type of yarn for the wrong project - sometimes with disasterous results. In these pages, Clara Parkes provides in-depth insight into a vast selection of yarns, giving you the inside stories behind the most common fibre types, preparations, spins and ply combinations used by large-scale manufacturers and importers, medium-sized companies, boutique dye shops, community spinneries and old-fashioned sheep farms. And, because we learn best by doing, Parkes went to some of the most creative and inquisitive design minds of the knitting world to provide ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Potter Craft
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780307352163
SKU
V9780307352163
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About C Parkes
CLARA PARKES left her career in the booming high-tech industry to pursue her love of knitting. She lives on the coast of Maine in a farm house full of yarn. She is the publisher of KnittersReview.com and a contributing editor to Interweave Knits.
Reviews for The Knitter's Book of Yarn: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing, Using, and Enjoying Yarn
“Un. Real. There is no other way to describe...well, that’s a lie because I'll come up with more. But my first impression of The Knitter's Book of Yarn? Un. Real. I open the hardcover to reveal a fiber family tree. Smitten. Smitten on the spot. This book is, without a doubt, everything you ever wanted to know not just about ... Read more